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A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide that any participant or beneficiary under an employee benefit plan shall be entitled to de novo review in court of benefit determinations under such plan PDF
Preview A bill to amend title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 to provide that any participant or beneficiary under an employee benefit plan shall be entitled to de novo review in court of benefit determinations under such plan
I 106thcongress H.R.1773 1stSession ToamendtitleIoftheEmployeeRetirementIncomeSecurityActof1974 toprovidethatanyparticipantorbeneficiaryunderanemployeebenefit planshallbeentitledtodenovoreviewincourtofbenefitdeterminations undersuchplan. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES May12,1999 Mr.Felner(forhimselfandMrs.Emerson)introducedthefollowingbiU; whichwasreferredtotheCommitteeonEducationandtheWorkforce A BILL To amend title I ofthe Employee Retirement Income Secu- rity' Act of 1974 to provide that any participant or beneficiar}' under an employeebenefitplanshallbe enti- tledto de novo reviewin court ofbenefitdeterminations undersuchplan. 1 BeitenactedbytheSenateandHouseofRepresenta- 2 tivesoftheUnitedStatesofAmericainCongressassembled, 3 SECTION1.SHORTTITLE. 4 ThisAct maybe cited as the "Access to DisabiUty 5 InsuranceActof1999". ensLIBRARY 2 3 aOTS ODOLEHa? 1 1 SEC.2.DENOVOREVIEWOFBENEFITDETERMINATIONS. 2 Section 502(e) ofthe Employee Retirement Income 3 SecurityActof1974 (29 U.S.C. 1132(e)) isamendedby 4 addingattheendthefollowingnewparagraph: 5 "(3) Notwithstanding anyprovision bythe plan for 6 theexercisebyafidiciaryofdiscretionaryauthoritywith 7 respect to anybenefit determination, any benefit deter- 8 minationundertheplanshallbesubjecttodenovoreview 9 bythecourt.". 10 SEC.3.EFFECTIVEDATE. 11 The amendment madebysection 2 ofthisAct shall 12 applywith respect to causes of action arising after the 13 dateoftheenactmentofthisAct. m >HR1773